Who is General Muhoozi Kainerugaba? Flash Uganda Media looks at his biography, early life, wife, education, promotion to the rank of general, mother, and family of the son of President Yoweri Museveni.
Muhoozi Kainerugaba is a Ugandan military officer. He is a Lieutenant General in the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) and is the commander of the Special Forces Group, which contains the unit known as Presidential Guard Brigade.
This group is responsible for providing security to the President of the Republic of Uganda and Uganda’s constitutional monarchs.
Lt. Gen Muhoozi was appointed as SFC commander on 16th December 2020, by H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Lt. Gen. Muhoozi served in the same position from 2008 to 2017. The Special Forces Group is also responsible for providing security at Uganda’s oil installations.
Gen Muhoozi is the son of President Yoweri Museveni, Commander in Chief of the UPDF and President of Uganda. Muhoozi has served as Senior Presidential Adviser for Special Operations since 2017.
Early Life and Education
Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 24 April 1974 to Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of Uganda and Janet Kataha Museveni, First Lady of Uganda. He is a Munyakole by tribe and currently resides in Munyonyo, Kampala.
Education
Lieutenant General Muhoozi Kainerugaba began his early school life in Tanzania, then Mount Kenya Academy in Nyeri, Kenya and later studied in Sweden.
After his father became President of the Republic of Uganda, Museveni’s family returned to Uganda and Muhoozi attended Kampala Parents School, King’s College Buddo for a while and St. Mary’s College Kisubi, a Kampala neighbourhood, where he completed both O’ and A’ Level.
Lt. Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba was later admitted to Egyptian Military Academy where he studied Company Commander’s Course and Battalion Commander’s Course. Then Kalama Armoured Warfare Training School, in Kabamba, Mubende District, located in the Central region of Uganda.
In 2007 Lt. Gen Muhoozi was admitted to a one-year course at the United States Army Commander and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, graduating in June 2008.
After, Lt. Gen Muhoozi completed the Executive National Security Programme at the South African National Defense College.
He also attended Royal Military Academy Sand Hurst, where Lt. Gen. Muhoozi studied Officer Cadet Course. Including US Army Command and General Staff College, where he studied Senior Military Command Course
Lt. Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, began his military training in 1994 after he graduated from high school. But he did not formally join the UPDF until 1999. He was then admitted to the Royal Military College Sand Hurst, graduating in 2000.
Military Career
Upon his return to Uganda from Sandhurst in 2000, Kainerugaba was assigned to the Presidential Protection Unit as a second Lieutenant. In 2001, he was promoted to the rank of major in the UPDF. As a major, he became a brigade commander in the Presidential Guard Brigade.
Following his graduation from Fort Leavenworth in 2008, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and appointed Commander of the Special Forces Group in the Uganda People’s Defense Force. On 16 May 2016, he was promoted to the rank of Major General by President Museveni.
Museveni moved Muhoozi to the post of Senior Presidential Adviser for Special Operations on 10 January 2017. The move was generally viewed in light of the widespread belief that Museveni was preparing his son to eventually succeed him as president.
Observers suggested that, by appointing Muhoozi as a presidential adviser, Museveni sought to give his son some political experience.
In February 2019, he was promoted from the rank of Major General to Lieutenant General, in a military promotions exercise that involved more than 2,000 UPDF men and women.
Muhoozi promoted to the rank of general
After making a controversial statement about capturing Nairobi, Uganda’s land force commander Muhoozi Kainerugaba was removed as commander.
The next day, President Yoweri Museveni promoted Muhoozi Kainerugaba to full general from lieutenant general.
In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Major General Kayanja Muhanga, commander of the Shujaa operation against Ugandan rebels, Allied Democratic Forces, has been promoted to Lieutenant General and will replace Muhoozi as CLF commander.
Family
Lieutenant General Muhoozi Kainerugaba is married to Charlotte Nankunda Kutesa, daughter of Sam Kutesa and together they have 3 children.
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